Memory Leak Affecting kernel-rt-debug-kvm package, versions *
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- published2 Apr 2025
- disclosed1 Apr 2025
Introduced: 1 Apr 2025
NewCVE-2025-21981 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
There is no fixed version for Centos:9 kernel-rt-debug-kvm.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt-debug-kvm package and not the kernel-rt-debug-kvm package as distributed by Centos.
See How to fix? for Centos:9 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ice: fix memory leak in aRFS after reset
Fix aRFS (accelerated Receive Flow Steering) structures memory leak by adding a checker to verify if aRFS memory is already allocated while configuring VSI. aRFS objects are allocated in two cases:
- as part of VSI initialization (at probe), and
- as part of reset handling
However, VSI reconfiguration executed during reset involves memory allocation one more time, without prior releasing already allocated resources. This led to the memory leak with the following signature:
[root@os-delivery ~]# cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak unreferenced object 0xff3c1ca7252e6000 (size 8192): comm "kworker/0:0", pid 8, jiffies 4296833052 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace (crc 0): [<ffffffff991ec485>] __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x275/0x340 [<ffffffffc0a6e06a>] ice_init_arfs+0x3a/0xe0 [ice] [<ffffffffc09f1027>] ice_vsi_cfg_def+0x607/0x850 [ice] [<ffffffffc09f244b>] ice_vsi_setup+0x5b/0x130 [ice] [<ffffffffc09c2131>] ice_init+0x1c1/0x460 [ice] [<ffffffffc09c64af>] ice_probe+0x2af/0x520 [ice] [<ffffffff994fbcd3>] local_pci_probe+0x43/0xa0 [<ffffffff98f07103>] work_for_cpu_fn+0x13/0x20 [<ffffffff98f0b6d9>] process_one_work+0x179/0x390 [<ffffffff98f0c1e9>] worker_thread+0x239/0x340 [<ffffffff98f14abc>] kthread+0xcc/0x100 [<ffffffff98e45a6d>] ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x50 [<ffffffff98e083ba>] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 ...
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-21981
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/23d97f18901ef5e4e264e3b1777fe65c760186b5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b27e6e10a32589fcd293b8933ab6de9387a460e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d30d256661fc11b6e73fac6c3783a702e1006a3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/78f3d64b30210c0e521c59357431aca14024cb79
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e6902101f34f098af59b0d1d8cf90c4124c02c6a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef2bc94059836a115430a6ad9d2838b0b34dc8f5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fcbacc47d16306c87ad1b820b7a575f6e9eae58b